Ramsey,
E., Bank, L., Patterson, G. R., & Walker, H. M. (1990). From Home
to School to Juvenile Court: A Social Interactional Model of the Path
to Delinquency . Eugene: University of Oregon.

Abstract

The general hypothesis tested
in this study was that the effect of inept parenting practices in the
home would generalize to increased risk for antisocial behaviors
occurring in the school setting. A sample of 80 families was used to
test this hypothesis. The database was sufficient to provide
hetero-method-agent indicators for two parental practice constructs,
discipline and monitoring, assessed when the boys were in the fourth
grade. A year later, school records, teacher ratings, and observation
data provided a set of five indicators that defined school antisocial.
The second prediction was that the school antisocial construct would
predict delinquent behavior measured two years later, when the boys
were in the 7th grade. This construct was defined by court records and
youth self-report data. Structural equation modeling was used to test
both hypotheses simultaneously. The findings offered strong support for
the assumption that parenting practices set in motion a process that
leads to disruption in the school setting and, eventually, to
delinquent acts.